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MONEY DRAWER.

No. 322,373. Patented July 14, 1885.

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WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR TO THE STREETOAR, MONEY DRAWER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

MONEY-DRAWER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 322,373, dated July 14,1885.

Application filed August 2, 1884. (Model) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HENRY HAR- RISON, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State ofKentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inMoney-Drawers; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a front view of my device. Fig. 2 is avertical sectional view of the same, and Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are detailviews. Fig. 6 is a front view of the drawer or box removed from theframe, and Fig. 7 is an interior view of the lock-casing.

This invention relates to that class of money: receptacles (usuallyattached to street-cars) into which the fares are dropped, and which arenot intended to be opened until the fares are collected at the end ofthe day; and it consists in the construction and novel arran gement ofdevices, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents a receptacle for the drawer,made in the usual or other proper manner, having the door a hinged toits front, as shown, and provided with locks a a, to secure it in place,the bolts of said locks engaging in proper holes or keepers, a (1 in thesides of the receptacle A.

B is the drawer, made of suitable form, and provided, over its top, withthe rectangular frame I), having its side clips, I) b, sliding in properhorizontal ways, hereinafter more fully described, and its front clip, bturned downward to form a handle, as shown. The rear clip, if, of theframe I) is provided with a vertical recess, D, for the passage of aspringactuated bolt, 1), which is designed to enter acorrespondingly-shaped recess in the movable half-cover E of the drawer,when the latter is brought in engagement with the spring-lever b pushingit slightly rearward, so as to remove its lug a from engagement with ashoulder, A, on the bolt 12 Thus it will be seen that it is necessaryfor the shoulder 13 of the movable half-cover E of the drawer to bebrought in engagement with the springlever, M, in order to have the boltD efiect a lock or engage the recess 0 of the said movable half-cover E.Therefore the half-cover E can only be moved for admission to the drawerwhen the bolt 12 has been drawn down by the key; but the bolt willspring up by the engagement therewith of the shoulder B on the saidmovable half cover.

O is a bracket screwed within the receptacle A, and having made on itthe horizontal ways 0 c,running'fron1 front to rear, in which waysslides the frame b of the drawer B, as described. The bracket (1 has onits top plate, 0, a central longitudinal opening, 0%, through whichpasses the downward-inclining rear end of a detent-bar, 0 the front endof which is pivoted between upright extensions 0 c, situated immediatelyin front of and to each side D is the fixed half-cover of the drawer,se-

cured transversely across the front portion of the same, the rearportion of which has no permanent cover. The half-cover D has pivoted bytheir central parts to its upper surface the two equal and similarlevers d d, on each side of its center, the inner edges of the rear endsof which levers lie against each other, and are provided with thenotches d cl, the said notches forming together a proper detent-opening,with its rear edge acting as the detent.

d d areproper springs, the inner ends of which are fixed to the uppersurface of the cover D, between the front extensions of the lovers 6! d,which extension the free ends of the springs push outward, bringing therear extensions of the levers, and consequently the notches d d,together.

d are latch-bars pivoted to the front extensions of the levers d d bytheir inner ends,

and having the edges of their outer ends beveled outward from rear tofront and extending slightly outside of the side clips of the frame I).The latch-bars are guided by longitudinal slots (1 (1 made in them,through which pass proper retaining screws, 61 (i to keep the latchbarsin proper relation with the cover D.

E is the movable half-cover of the drawer, sliding in proper ways, 0,made in the frame b, above the fixed half-cover, levers d d, andlatch-bars, and having near its rear edge the transverse rectangularopening 6, situated in. such position that it passes directly over thebolt b when the half-cover E is over the rear portion of the drawer.

e is a projection from the upper surface of the movable halfcover, whichprojection, when the said cover is over the fixed cover, bears againstthe detent'point c of the detentbar 0 c is a projection rising from theupper surface of the movable half-cover E, near the front edge of thesame, and engaging against the front of a detent, 0 made on the lowersurface of the bracket 0.

e is a projection from the under surface of the movable half cover E,which proje(tion, when said cover is over th6fiX( (1 cover D and thedrawer is out of the receptacle, engages between the detent notches d d,holding the movable cover to the front, so that the rear portion of thetop of the drawer is uncovered.

When the frame bis slid in the ways 0 c, the outward edges of thelatch-bars d d impinge within said ways and drive the said latchbarsinward, releasing the rear ends and notches of the levers d d from theprojection or pin 0 and allowing the fare-drawer to be slid frontwardunder the movable cover.

The operation of this device is as follows: \Vhen the drawer is slidinto its proper rcceptacle by means of frame 1), ways 0 0, and handle [2the action of said ways opens the latch-bars (1 d releases the movablehaltcover E from its position above the fixed halfcover D, theprojection c is brought against thedetent-point c and the projectionagainst the detente. Now, when the drawer is drawn out the fixed coverand fare-drawer slide under the movable cover until the edge of thelatter disengages the spring-catch b from the bolt 1)", whichimmediately rises into the opening 0, disengages the detent-point c fromthe projections 0 and locks the movable cover over the rear of thedrawer.

When the drawer is to be replaced, the same is opened by a proper key,and as it slides in place the detent e engages the projection e andkeeps the movable cover back as the box goes into the receptacle.

In practical use two boxes or drawers would be used with thefare-receptacle of each car. The person who changed these drawers wouldcarry the locked one to the office, to be there unlocked and emptied,and would insert any empty one in place of the first.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

In a device to receive fares, the combination, with the receptacle A,bracket 0, provided with ways 0 c and detent 0, frame b, provided withspring-controlled bolt 1) and spring catch 1), and fare-box B, of thefixed half-cover D, having attached thereto the latch-bars d d andspring-controlled lever d d, spring-controlled detent-bar 0 providedwith detentpoint 0 and movable half-cover E, provided with projections 0c and c and opening 6, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON.

Witnesses:

G. D. HAMILTON, OLIVER Lucas.

